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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English, 1775–1851
Hoolay Deedy, Seringapatam
c.1800
Image Caption
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Hoolay Deedy, Seringapatam, c.1800, watercolor and gouache over graphite on white wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.119
Medium
watercolor and gouache over graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 9/16 x 25 3/4 in. (42.1 x 65.4 cm)
Object Number
2007.8.119
Acquisition
Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Leger Galleries. English Watercolours and Drawings. Leger Galleries, November 19-December 24, 1986. 1986. Wilton, Andrew and David Blayney Brown. "Picture Notes: The Siege of Seringapatam." Turner Studies: His Art and Epoch 1775–1851 8, no. 1 (1988). Wilton, Andrew. Turner, Girtin and Bonington: A New York Private Collection, Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings. New York: Privately Published, 2001. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.
Provenance
[P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, sold to Murphy as attributed to Williams Daniell, 1948]; Ray Livingston Murphy (1948–1986, sale, Christie’s, London, 18 Mar. 1986, no. 107, sold as attributed to Turner, sold to Leger); [Leger Galleries, Mar.–Nov. 1986, sold to Manton, Nov. 1986]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1986–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.